SUMMARY:

• Over 13+ years of experience in IT Industry as a System administrator in Windows, VMware ESX/ESXi, vCenter Server,, vCloud Director, Confidential, UCS director, Confidential Storage, Sun Solaris and Linux.
• 11+ Years of Experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server administration and active directory installation and configuration.
• 7 + years of experience in VMWARE with ESX 3.0/3.5/4.0 and ESXi 4.1/5.1/5.5, vSphere, Virtual center Server, vRealize Operation Manager, vCloud Director, vCAC and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• 4+ years of experience in Designing and implementing Confidential, Deploying new Data center setup, New UCS installation and configuration.
• Having 2 years of Experience in Confidential Clarion storage Management
• 2 years of Experience in Sun Solaris installation and configuration
• 2 years of experience in Redhat Linux installation and configuration
• 1 year Experience in Veritas Netbackup.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring ESX 3 ESXi 4.1/ 5.1/5.5 hosts in new Datacenter for migration. Installing and configuring vCenter server and assigning the Permissions. Creating vSwitch and Distributed switch in ESXi. Data store creation and LUN assignment.
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Data Stores, and Networking
• Extensive experience in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in Patching ESX/ESXi using VMware update Manager.
• Experience in Managing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi, VM's and vCenter server
• Implemented Cisco Nexus 1000V Distributed switch
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 9.1. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in migration From ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 and Vcenter Up gradation
• Installation and configuration of vCloud Director. creating cluster and providing resource to each organization group.
• Installing and Configuring VMware Site recovery Manager, Creating Protection group and recovery plan for critical VM's.
• Capacity planning using VMware vCenter Operation Manager.
• Performance tuning using ESXTOP
• Experience in Virtual and DV switch creation and VLAN, Port group creation in Nexus 1000v.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem.
• Experience in New Chassis discovery, installation and configuration new chassis, creating service profiles, New VLAN, Associating, De - Associating service profile, VNIC template creation in UCS.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Hands on Experience in Confidential Clarion Administration by Using Navisphere Manager
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Analyze the existing multiple Datacenter Virtual Infrastructure and providing the possible solution for Migrating to new Datacenters which includes challenges, Risk and Impact.
• Experience in windows 2003/2008 Microsoft clustering
• Experience in Active directory Management, Group Policy Implementation
• Experience in Window servers Patching using WSUS
• Strong analysis skills that include insight on successfully applying technological solutions and best practices to resolve business issues, while improving overall efficiency
• Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Skills: vSphere 4.x/5.x, ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , Virtual Center Server, VMware View, VMware vRealize Operation Manager, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Client, VMware vCloud Director P2V, V2V, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convert Microsoft

Products& tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active DirectoryRights Management Services, DNS, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005,SQL server 2008, Microsoft Cluster, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP

Hardware: HP Chassis and servers, IBM, DELL servers. Confidential chassis and Blades. Sunservers. Confidential Clarion, VNX 5300

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2012, 2008 R2, 2003, 2000 and Windows XP, WindowsVista, Windows 7

Tools: HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, VM I/O Analyzer, Vkernel Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP. RVTools. Power CLI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing configuring C series Rack servers.
• Firmware up gradation of UCS manager
• Implementing UCS installation and configuration using XML file for multiple sites.
• Commissioning and decommissioning the chassis
• Service profile creation and Template creation
• Associating and de associating a blade from service profile.
• VNIC template creation and binding the template
• Boot/BIOS/Maintenance Policy creation
• Regular health Check report using cisco power tool and script
• More number of VLAN creation using command
• VSAN creation and VHBA template creation
• Firmware up gradation of blade.
• Troubleshooting the issue in UCS
• Installation of ESXi and Windows OS
• Automate the UCS backup.
• Installing, Configuring ESXi 5.1/5.5 hosts in new Datacenter for migration for Prod and Non Prod environment.
• Installing and configuring vCenter server and assigning the Permissions. Creating vSwitch and Distributed switch in ESXi. Data store creation and LUN assignment.
• Analyzing existing Physical servers and prepare the report for Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion. Convert Physical servers to Virtual servers, Virtual to Virtual servers Using VMware vCenter configuration. migrate Virtual Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter
• Provide the steady state support after datacenter Migration.
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi and VM issues
• HA and DRS configuration
• Vmotion and Cold Migration, Storage Motion
• Disk drive (C,D,etc..) expansion for VM’s depends on the client requirement.
• Port group creation for new VLAN, Virtual switch creation and configuration.
• New VLAN creation in UCS and Port group creation in DV switch
• LUN allocation, Assigning RDM and creating Microsoft clustering in VM’s
• RDM to VMDK conversion, claim Rule implementation and LUN reclamation
• ESXi upgrade/vCenter Upgrade
• V2V and P2V, migration using VMware standalone convertor
• Creating LUN Report/RDM report using scripts
• Recommend the customer to follow the Best practices in VMware and Implement the same

Confidential, MO

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring the ESXi 5.1/5.5 and Virtual Machines based on customer requirement
• Installing, Configuring ESXi 5.1/5.5 hosts in new Datacenter for migration for Prod and Non Prod environment.
• Installing and configuring vCenter server and Assigning the Permissions. Creating vSwitch and Distributed switch in ESXi. Data store creation and LUN assignment.
• Analyzing existing Physical servers and prepare the report for Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion. Convert Physical servers to Virtual servers, Virtual to Virtual servers Using VMware vCenter configuration. migrate Virtual Machines from one datacenter to another datacenter
• Provide the steady state support after datacenter Migration.
• Maintaining and Providing support for existing legacy ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.1 environment
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi and VM issues
• HA and DRS configuration
• Vmotion and Cold Migration, Storage Motion
• Disk drive (C,D,etc..) expansion for VM’s depends on the client requirement.
• Port group creation for new VLAN, Virtual switch creation and configuration.
• New VLAN creation in UCS and Port group creation in DV switch
• Performing health check for ESXi servers and VM’s Using Vcenter Operation Manager
• Performance Monitoring and tuning for ESXi and VM
• LUN allocation, Assigning RDM and creating Microsoft clustering in VM’s
• RDM to VMDK conversion, claim Rule implementation and LUN reclamation
• ESXi upgrade/vCenter Upgrade
• V2V and P2V, migration using VMware standalone convertor
• Creating LUN Report/RDM report using scripts
• Recommend the customer to follow the Best practices in VMware and Implement the same
• Provide the value add’s to customer which will help to improve the service Management
• Installation and configuration of New chassis
• Implementing UCS installation and configuration using XML file for multiple sites.
• Commissioning and decommissioning the chassis
• Service profile creation and Template creation
• Associating and de associating a blade from service profile.
• VNIC template creation and binding the template
• Boot/BIOS/Maintenance Policy creation
• Regular health Check report using cisco power tool and script
• More number of VLAN creation using command
• VSAN creation and VHBA template creation
• Firmware upgradation of balde.
• Troubleshooting the issue in UCS
• Installation of ESXi and Windows OS
• Template creation for different OS
• MAC Pool creation and extension
• Integrating UCS with Active directory
• Backup UCS

Confidential, IL

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring the ESXi 4.1/5.1 and Virtual Machines based on customer requirement
• Maintaining and Providing support for ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.1/5.1 environment
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi and VM issues
• HA and DRS configuration
• Vmotion and Cold Migration, Storage Motion
• Disk drive (C,D,etc..) expansion for VM’s depends on the client requirement.
• Port group creation for new VLAN, Virtual switch creation and configuration.
• New VLAN creation in UCS and Nexus 1000v appliances
• Adding the ESXi server in Nexus 1000V distributed switch
• Add the vCenter server in to VCOPS and monitoring the ESXi and VM using VCOPS.
• Performing health check for ESXi servers and VM’s Using Vcenter Operation Manager
• Performance Monitoring and tuning for ESXi and VM using vCOPS.
• LUN allocation, Assigning RDM and creating Microsoft clustering in VM’s
• RDM to VMDK conversion, claim Rule implementation and LUN reclamation
• ESXi upgrade/vCenter Upgrade
• V2V and P2V, migration using Plate spin and VMware standalone convertor
• VMware vCloud director installation and configuration
• Microsoft clustering setup in windows 2008 VM’s
• Capacity Management using VCOPS.
• Creating LUN Report/RDM report using scripts
• Recommend the customer to follow the Best practices in VMware and Implement the same
• Provide the value add’s to customer which will help to improve the service Management
• Confidential Central and Confidential director installation and configuration.
• Confidential Installation and configuration of New chassis
• Commissioning and decommissioning the chassis
• Service profile creation and Template creation
• Associating and de associating a blade from service profile.
• VNIC template creation and binding the template
• Boot/BIOS/Maintenance Policy creation
• Troubleshooting the issue in UCS
• UCS Firmware and BIOS up gradation
• Installation of ESXi and Windows OS
• Template creation for different OS
• MAC Pool creation and extension
• Integrating UCS with Active directory
• Backup UCS
• Creating support files for troubleshooting the issue
• Creating RAID Groups, binding LUN's, Creating Meta LUN's, Creating Storage Groups, AccessLogix and registering hosts as per customer Requirements.
• Performing Storage Array health checks
• Creating LUNS and allocating storage capacity to the servers according to the requirements.
• Creating Meta LUN and allocating the Meta to the host.
• Remotely system monitoring & administration for 2000 & 2003/2008 servers.
• Administration of Windows 2003/2008 Domain
• Installing & Administrating Active Directory installation, creating and implementing group policy, security policy.
• Installation and configuration of DNS,DHCP servers
• Administration, maintenance, troubleshooting of Server / Operating system / User problems.
• Group Policy Implementation & User policy
• Analysis of Root Cause for critical problems and document in knowledge DB.
• Analyzing the memory dump and find out the root cause given the solution
• Handling RILO issues, teaming issues.
• Managing/ upgrading RAID levels in IBM/Dell servers.
• Server administration for disk space, hardware failure, driver & firmware updates.
• Implementing Microsoft Cluster and configuring 2 node cluster

Confidential, MD

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing L3 level support for VMware environment
• Installing and Configuring the ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0 Virtual Machines
• Maintaining and Providing support for ESX 3.1,3.5 4.0 and 4.1 ESX environment
• Troubleshooting ESX and VM issues
• ESX up gradation from 3.5 to 4.1 and virtual machine migration
• VC up gradation
• HA and DRS configuration
• Vmotion and Cold Migration, Storage Motion
• Disk drive (C, D, etc.) expansion for VM’s depends on the client requirement.
• Port group creation for new VLAN, Virtual switch configuration.
• Regular BAU activities such as Increasing Space, Adding additional drives, performance issue etc.
• Snapshot management.
• New VM built using Template. Windows 2008 VM built
• Done ESX host migration from 2.5 to 3.5
• Performing regular health check for ESX servers and VM’s
• Performing ISec remediation in ESX servers
• LUN allocation, Assigning RDM and creating Microsoft clustering in VM’s
• V2V and P2V, migration using Plate spin and VMware convertor
• Regular ESX patching using update manager
• Microsoft clustering setup in windows 2008 VM’s
• Performance Monitoring and tuning.
• Remotely system monitoring & administration for 2000 & 2003/2008 servers.
• Administration of Windows 2003/2008 Domain
• Data Center Maintenance and Contingency activities
• Maintaining and supporting more than 1000 windows servers with different hardware
• Installing & Administrating Active Directory installation, creating and implementing group policy, security policy.
• Installation and configuration of DNS,DHCP servers
• Backup of DHCP
• Migration of DHCP/WINS servers
• Antivirus Server migration.
• Administration, maintenance, troubleshooting of Server / Operating system / User problems.
• Group Policy Implementation & User policy
• Analysis of Root Cause for critical problems and document in knowledge DB.
• Analyzing the memory dump and find out the root cause given the solution
• Handling RILO issues, teaming issues.
• Managing/ upgrading RAID levels in IBM/Dell servers.
• Server administration for disk space, hardware failure, driver & firmware updates.
• Implementing Microsoft Cluster and configuring 2 node cluster
• Done successful 3 month knowledge transfer for project (onsite) account.
• Transition given to offshore members
• Participating weekly regional meeting, discussing about critical issues, creating MOM document and shared with Service delivery manager.
• Remotely system monitoring & administration for 2000 & 2003 servers.
• Administration of Win 2003 Domain
• Data Center Maintenance and Contingency activities
• Installing & Administrating Active Directory installation, creating and implementing group policy, security policy.
• Installation and configuration of DNS,DHCP servers
• Administration, maintenance, troubleshooting of Server / Operating system / User problems.
• Group Policy Implementation & User policy
• Implemented users and computer migration from windows 2000 domain to 2003 domain.
• User Creation, deletion and OU creation, applying Group Policies in OU.
• Handling information Security issues like Access control, Vulnerability assessments, Intruder Detection and Patching
• Maintaining and supporting more than 2700 windows servers across globe.
• Hardening of all Servers.
• Implemented RAID conversion. Migration of RAID 1 volumes to RAID 5 volume
• Performance monitoring and tuning the servers
• Analysis of Root Cause for critical problems and document in knowledge DB.
• Analyzing the memory dump and find out the root cause given the solution
• Handling RILO issues, teaming issues.
• Server administration for disk space, hardware failure, driver & firmware updates.
• OS administration for regular patch management & Service Pack updates.
• Administrating NAV console
• Creating backup policy and taking backup on daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Patch management planning and installation
• Coordinating with site support whenever assistance required.
• Coordinating with hardware vendors whenever hardware failure.
• Coordinating with application teams in resolving the problem.
• Performing the Health check and Remediate the Violation based on ISeC security standards for Windows servers.
• Administration of VERITAS net backup and creating the backup policies
• Installing and Managing 2 node Microsoft Clusters.
• Performing restoration like file & database using TSM.
• Installing and Configuring the ESX 3.5, Virtual Machines.
• Vmotion and Cold Migrations
• Migrating disks from one data store to another data store
• Regular BAU activities such as Increasing Space, Adding additional drives, performance issue etc.
• Snapshot management.
• Cloning and Teaming
• Done ESX host migration from 2.5 to 3.5 Sun Solaris 9.0
• Installation and configuration
• Network configuration
• Adding new disk and creating partition.
• Creating users and giving permission
• Mail configuration
• Samba configuration
• Printer and Tape drive configuration